Seal of N. Libellisios, krites of the velum, and epi tou kanikleiou
SigiDoc ID: s-w38ZZZ
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-VKpbDH
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression.
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 27
- Weight (g)
- 9.6
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-6
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Thin crack at the upper end of the channel, partially effaced on the obverse.
Dating
- Date
- 11th c., second half.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Central administration.
- Issuer
- N. Libellisios(PBW: Ioannes 20154)
Milieu: Civil
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- ―
- Find place
- ―
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Cologne (Germany)
- Institution and repository
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection SB-111
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- A saint standing (probably St Nicholas), offering a blessing with his right hand, and holding the book in his left. Details indistinct.
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Above the legend, the decoration consists of a star between two dashes; below the legend, traces of a decoration. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- On following seals, only the reverse is parallel to ours:
(1) DO BZS.1951.31.5.1214 (Fogg Collection, no. 1214) – LaurentCorpus2, no. 221 ; DOsealsOnline, BZS.1951.31.5.1214 ;
(2) Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, M-8047 – Lihačev1991, p. 114, no. 8, table LXIV, no.8 ;
(3) Budapest, Hungarian National Museum, no. 2A/1996 – Chotzakoglou1999, p. 65, no. . - Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
… κριτοῦ τοῦ βήλου καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ κανικλείου τοῦ Λιβελλησίου.
(Seal of) N. Libellesios, krites of the Velum, and epi tou kanikleiou.
References
Commentary
It is likely that the first name of the issuer was inscribed on the obverse. While it has not survived, it can be reconstructed as Ioannes thanks to another seal type whose reverse is parallel to ours. It is unfortunate that the inscription on the obverse of the seal has not survived, as it could have provided important information concerning the motives behind Ioannes Libellesios' selection of matrices.